EXTRACTS FROM THE BOSTON (U.S.A.) CATALOGUE. 277 [The following 22 designs all lent to the Exhibition by Mrs. Hooper are in water colour: size about 8 ins. by 10, tints vivid.] 58. Children and Sheep, brilliant sky, greensward under the children, and Lambs. 59. Body surrounded by and borne up on Flames. 60. Descent into Hell. Flames, two male figures, lurid sky. 61. Man raising himself from a cleft in the earth. 63. Three Nude Figures, one standing, two reclining; shadows very black. 64. A Young Man with arms raised-two children in background. 65. Woman leading forward a Group of Children, rocks on each side. [The bottom group in the Descent to the Tomb, Blair's Grave.] 66. Female Figure. 67. Ditto. 68. Group of three Female Figures in Clouds. 69. Group of six Female Figures, all in page 81 of the Ferusalem, of which they appear to be the original conception, being on old yellow paper. 72. Swan bearing a Man through the Air. (From the America.) 73. Death's Door. 74. Two Female Figures kneeling. 75. Man meditating; two small figures hovering near [smaller in size than the others]. 76. Resurrection. Figure sitting on a skeleton, apparently the first thought for the upper figure in Death's Door,-more full face. 77. Christ and the Dead; flames behind the dead figure in black. 78. Female figure kneeling on greensward, kissing a child. 79. Spirit of the Sea-emerging from a wave hovers over a bowed and disconsolate figure beside the rocks. 80. Three Figures sitting by the Sea. 81. Three Figures seated under Trees; trees and landscape in brown outline, figures coloured. 120. The Parent's Blessing. Water colour. [H. E. Scudder.] 121. Figures ascending; sketch of family on the left side of Last Fudgment in Blair's Grave. 127, Two water-colour studies for the Descent of Man into the Vale of 128. Death. Blair's Grave. [R. C. Waterston.] THE subjoined is a Debtor and Creditor Account between Blake and Mr. Butts, which, as an authentic record of the scale of prices received by the artist, and also as fixing the date of production of some of his most remarkable works, deserves insertion here : Jan. 12. Due on Account 12 Drawings, viz.— 1. Famine. 2. War. 3. Moses striking the Rock. 4. Ezekiel's Wheels. 5. Christ girding Himself with Strength. 6. Fourand-twenty Elders. 7. Christ baptizing. 8. Samson breaking his Bonds. 9. Samson subdued. 10. Noah and Rainbow. 12. Wise and Foolish Virgins. 12. "Hell beneath is moved for thee," &c. from Isaiah 5 July. 4 Prints, viz. 1. Good and Evil Angel. 2. House of Death. 3. God judging Adam. 4. Lamech 4 Nos. of Hayley's Ballads 7 Sept. 4 Prints, viz. 1. Nebuchadnezzar. 2. Newton. 3. God creating Adam. Christ appearing Dec. 12 Touching up Christ baptizing. 12 12 O CR. £ s. d. 12 12 O 4. 4 4 I I 7 6 . ၁ 7 6 O 10 о O 10 6 26 5 £66 o ENGRAVINGS. [The following Lists, especially the Second, do not, of course, pretend to completeness. Size is given when it could be ascertained, except in cases where it has been already specified, according to reference.] WORKS DESIGNED AS WELL AS ENGRAVED BY BLAKE. King Edward and Queen Eleanor. 1779. See p. 207. Morning, or Glad Day. 10 x 7 in. 1780. Mary Wollstonecraft's Tales for Children. 8vo. Six Plates. 1791. Nine Plates to Gay's Fables. 8vo. Published by Stockdale. VOL. I. 31 28, 32 89 1739 Ezekiel 'Take away from thee the desire of thine eyes.' Job: 'What is man, that Thou shouldst try him every moment?' 1794 133 133 Illustrations to Young's Night Thoughts. Folio. 1797. 135-140 Little Tom the Sailor. Hayley's Broadsheet. 1800. 18 × 7 in. 153-155 (An instance of the process Blake calls 'wood-cutting on pewter.') The Weather House and Cowper's Tame Hares. Vignettes for Hayley's Life of Cowper. 1803 Nine Plates to Hayley's Ballads. 4to. 1805. Ditto, reduced, for the 12mo. edition The Canterbury Pilgrims. 1817 171 176-8 224 250-274-280 Small Plate altered from the same for Frontispiece. 8vo. 291-2 The Accusers of Theft, Adultery, Murder. A Scene in the Last Judgment. Satan's Holy Trinity. The Accuser, the Judge, and the Executioner. The first title inscribed on the background, over the heads of the figures. Very powerful and terrible. 9 × 5 in. X 304 Moses laid in the flags by the river's brink.' Small Engraving, of exquisite delicacy and finish. The figure of the mother, fainting and falling back from the little ark, is very beautiful. In the background are pyramids, a sphinx, and river winding down the land-a grand yet sweet ideal of Ancient Egypt. 4×3 in. Drowned figures, Man and Woman, lying on rocks by the sea. Enormous eagles soaring above. Engraved after the fashion of 'wood-cutting on metal.' Very fine. 5× 4 in. Adam and Eve. Subject looking at first like the Finding the Body of Abel. Adam and Eve stand in impassioned sorrow over a youthful figure-not dead, however, but manacled by the wrists and ankles to the rocky ground-who turns his eyes upon them. A sort of St. Peter's Dome appears in the distance. The design is probably intended for a prophetic symbol of the Atonement. The heads of Adam and Eve are each encircled by a nimbus. On the background is inscribed, Type by W. Blake, 1817.' Very similar to the headpiece of the America. 41 x 3 in. Group of Figures on the edge of a rock by the sea, gazing, as appears, on some awful or supernatural spectacle in the clouds and waters; roughly etched, in the same method as the preceding. A most impressive, indeed appallingly suggestive composition. 11 × 8 in. . Figure, with a glory, standing before a rising or setting sun or globe. Mirth and her attendant Spirits. Milton's Allegro. Engraved from the first Design of the series for the Allegro and Penseroso. Rather small. P. 246, List I. No. 231A, Vol. II. . Death's Door. For the Grave. Sacred to Simplicity. Female Figure placing a scroll on a monument. Four Male Figures. A Man kneeling. Angels and Demons behind. Etchings. Subjects from Shakespeare. (Sold at T. H. Burke's VOL. I. 58 269 · 317-20 Seventeen Woodcuts to Thornton's Virgil. 1820 the water in a bowl. Example of Blake's 'wood-cutting on copper,' very painter-like in treatment and effect; of signal richness and beauty. Inventions to the Book of Job. Folio. 1826. Mr. Cumberland's Card-plate. 1827. Dante. Seven Plates. Small folio. 1824-1827 VOL. I. 328-36 399 373-8 WORKS ENGRAVED BUT NOT DESIGNED BY BLAKE. Joseph of Arimathea among the Rocks of Albion. 10 x 51 in. 1773. Broad, effective Engraving; trembling sunlight on the sea well rendered Sundry Plates, in the Memoirs of Hollis, in Gough's Monuments, &c. 19 19, 20 32-3 Asia and Africa. After Stothard. Frontispiece to a System of cerning Mambrino's Helmet. Ditto, Pl. 16. The Peaceful Death of Don Quixote. Sir Charles Grandison. Pl. 8. Miss Byron visiting Miss Pl. 9. Duel in Parlour. Pl. 12. Grandison's Interview with Clementina and her Mother. Clarence's Dream. For Enfield's Speaker. Pub. by Johnson. After Stothard. 1780. 33 Scott of Amwell's Poems. Four Plates. After Stothard. Pub. by Buckland. 1782 51 Lady's Pocket-Book. Two Plates. After Stothard. 1782 or 1783 51 Ritson's English Songs. Nineteen Plates, about half of them engraved by Blake. Stothard. Pub. by Johnson. 1783.51-2 The Fall of Rosamond. Stothard. Circular. 12 in. Pub. by Macklin. 1783.. 51 |